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G. G. HEMENWAY.

FISHING LEADER. No. 469,015. Patented Feb. 16, 1892.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE C. HEMENWVAY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO CHARLES F. IMBRIE, OF SAME PLACE.

FISHING-LEADER.

b-PECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 469,015, dated February 16, 1892.

- Application filed August 28, 1891. Serial No. 404,024. (No model) To all whom it may concern.- Fig. 2. The'sole object of the-knotting is to Be it known that I, GEORGE OOWLES HEM- retain the strands for a time parallel with one 5 ENWAY, acitizen of the United States, and a another and in close contact. Any method resident of the city of New York, in the State of treatment which will accomplish this re- 5 of New York, have invented a new and useful sult willanswer every purpose. I next apply Improvement in Fishing-Leaders, of which a coating of a cement formed by dissolving orthe following is a specification. dinary sheet-celluloid in ether to the thick- 60 My invention relates to that portion of an ness of asirup, being careful not to cover the anglers outfit known as leaders or castknots, all substantially as shown in Fig. 2, in [0 ing -lines. Heretofore such leaders have which A is the cement, B the knots, andG 0 been made by knotting together a greater or the strands of gut to be united. /Vhen the less number of strands of silk-worm gut until cement is dry, which soon takes place, the 65 the desired length has beenobtained. As the knots B are out off and a second coat of the length of these strands seldom exceeds a foot cement is applied so as to cover the ends, and often, particularly in the heavier sizes with the result shown in an exaggerated manfalls much short of that, the number of knots ner in Fig. 3. in a leader of any length is considerable. Thus a leader may be formed of any de- 70 This has long been conceded by all anglers to sired length in which the places of juncture be very objectionable-first, because, as is of its various strands will be the strongest well known, theknots are always the weakest part of the leader; also, the enlargement of part of the leader, and, second, since the the places of juncture scarcely exceeds the knots are conspicuous both of themselves thickness of the parts when lapped together 75 and because of the disturbance they create and is of such shape as to permit the leader in the water when the leader is drawn through being drawn through or over the Water with it. This latter defect is especially noticeable the least possible disturbance.

and detrimental in fly-fishing, wherein a Of course many cements have been or may leader is indispensable and when the flies are be discovered which will answer the purpose. 80 attached to the leader and first cast upon the Any cement which will be reasonably flexi- Water at a distance from the angler and then his when set, which will unite gut with gut 3o drawn toward him. with snfficient tenacity and-which is not af- My invention is intendedto meet and overfected by water, will do. I have myself used come all these difficulties and to afiord a several different-cements with success; but 85 leader in which the places of juncture of the that given answers every purpose and is best strands is the strongestinstead of the weakest at present known to me. With this cement part, in which there are no knots, and in and an inch or a little more of lap I have which the leader is sufficiently near of the found it impossible to pull the strongest gut same diameter from end to end as to enable apart at the joints even afterlong soaking in 0 it to be drawn with the minimum possible water. disturbance over or through the water. -Having thus described my invention, what In the drawings which form part of this I claim as new, and desire to patent, is

specification, Figurel represents two strands As a new article of manufacture, a fishing of an ordinary leader united by what is leader composed of strands of silk-worm gut 95 known as the single water-knot, which is or similar material, the component parts of the least conspicuous method in general use. which are laid or lapped together and held Fig. 2 represents my method of accomplishin place by a flexible water-proof cement.-

ing the same result at the end of the first In testimony that I claim the foregoing as stage of my process. Fig. 3 represents my my invention I have signed my name, in pres- 10o leader completed. ence of two witnesses, this 24th day of August,

In the drawings the diameters are in all 1.891. cases much exaggerated for the sake of clearness, Witnesses:

To produce my leader, I first lap two strands HENRY P. WELLS, of silk-worm gut and knot them, as shown in WILLIAM KING.

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